hotmetal - find it!

lazydog
4.Jul.2009 8.33am
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Dear type detectives...

maybe someone can find out about this one ...?
http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~linke/Type%20Identification/Typen_300dpi_sw.jpg

What I know so far:

- The sample was printed before 1942;
and probably after 1929 (if typeface 1 is actually Memphis; see below)

- typeface 1 looks like Memphis (Stempel, 1929), except the f is lacking the left side of the bar and the top of the t is cut off in an angle instead of horizontal.

- typeface 2 has some features that can be found in typefaces mainly between 1900 and 1925 (style of the caps, small g-slope, top of t, oval dots on i, ä, ü etc.)
pretty close are Alt-Mediaeval (Berthold, 1914), Tiemann-Antiqua (Walter Tiemann, 1923, Gebr. Klingspor), or Bernhard-Antiqua (Lucian Bernhard, 1911, Flinsch).

- typeface 3 (italic) has a remarkable g. couldn't find this anywhere...

- typeface 4 is probably the most difficult one, the style of the caps (esp. E, M, R) might be helpful. For complete confusion there are two different W's!

thanks for any advice...!
oliver

Berg
4.Jul.2009 9.27pm
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Typeface 3 looks like a Polish typeface designed by Adam Półtawskiego. Janusz M. Nowacki made the digital version, Antykwa Półtawskiego.